Smells like teen spirit? No I say more like teen BO.
The skinny
I have lived downtown most of my life and really wouldn't have it any other way I love the architecture and community for art downtown. I first heard about the first Friday events when I was working at the burton Barr library and was a fan of going out to support local artist. Most of the works that are in galleries or shops are too expensive but great to look at, most of the street art is crap and looks to be almost a joke or someone pretending to be an artist to make a quick buck. The funny thing to me is to always see some teen with a free hugs sign on or someone arguing for religion, animal rights and marijuana. Save your pamphlets as I recycle them, the vendors are not really reasonable about prices ur typical 3$ waters and over prices food trucks are always out there I paid 2$ for a sweet tea that I hope was tea and not just funny tasting water from a vendor called chillin b's. I honestly don't know how that dude makes money that was the worse tasting drink I ever had. There are some cool spots to buy some tshirt and other stuff which is cool but honestly everything is way overpriced here.
Wait till winter as the heat will make any event the worse.